Words the Bible translates as candle
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- luchnosλύχνοςa small oil lamp: the hand-sized clay bowl, fed with olive oil through a wick, that lit an ordinary home
- nerנֵרlamp: a small oil-burning lamp, and by extension the light of a life or a household that can shine or be snuffed out
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Every English meaning beginning with C is on its letter page, and the whole index starts at Browse.